Lecture 11: USG, IGOs, & NGOs (Exam 3) Flashcards
What are the common USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) “I want tos”
- Import animal or animal products
- Import plant or plant products
- Export animal or animal products
What is the most common APHIS questions
Where can I find regulations to export live animals or animal products to other countries
Who is Dr. Karen Sliter
- Karen Sliter is the Assoc. Deputy admin
- Responsible for APHIS’ animal & plant health activities around the world (45 overseas APHIS attaches)
What are the veterinary program activities in APHIS-International
- Monitory & reporting foreign animal/emerging disease
- Capacity building
- Management of emerging threats (ex. influenza)
What does FSIS (Food Safety Inspection services) do
Insures that meat, poultry , & egg products imported to the US are produced under standards equivalent to US inspection standards & facilitates the certification of exported goods
What is the engagement of the FDA- Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)
To build food safety capacity programs around the world
What does the FDA- Center for Vet Med do? Give an example
- Approves drugs, devices, & feed for animals
- Conducted test w/ china jerky treats manufactures to try to figure out why they were making pets sick
What is one of USAIDs core global health priorities
Fighting infectious dxs
What is one of the USAIDs key strategic approaches to global health
Promoting gender equality & women’s empowerment
What is an IGO (Intergovernmental organization)
- An organization composed primarily of sovereign states or of other intergovernmental organizations
- Est. by treaty or other agreement that acts as a charter creating the group
What are the strengths of an IGO
- Hold state authority
- Institutions are permanent
- Provide a forum for discussion
- Are issue specific
- Provide info
- Allow multilateral cooperation
What are the weaknesses of IGOs
- Membership is limited (prohibits the membership of private citizens & not all IGOs allow universal membership)
- Often overlap resulting in complex network
- States have to give up part of their sovereignty (weakens the state’s ability to assert its authority)
What is the UN Food & Agri Organization’s focus
Achieving food security for all (make sure people have reg access to enough high quality food to lead active healthy lives)
What are the WHO’s functions
Directing & coordinating authority on international health w/in the united nation’s system
What is WOAH’s role in animal health & welfare
- Support strengthening national vet services capacity
- Dev guidelines & standards
- Provide training & education
- Support knowledge management exchange
What is an operational exceptions example & who does it help?
- PPR (Peste des Petits) in ruminants
- Helps larger & some poorer farmers
T/F: IGO often have inter-connective programs
True
Describe the WHO-WOAH-UNFAO-UNEP Quadripartite
A world capable of preventing, detecting, containing, eliminating, & responding to animal & public health risks attributable to zoonoses & animal dx w/ an impact on food security through multi-sectoral cooperation & strong partnerships
What is a non-governmental organization (NGO)
A not for profit organization that is indep from states & international gov organizations
What is the key element of the ICRC (International committee of red cross)
- Neutrality
- Makes no distinction btw/ victims
What are the challenges of NGOs & governments
- Various & conflicting agendas
- Neutrality
- Scalability
- Security
- Continuity of operations
What all international venues does the AVMA represent the profession
- WOAH (OIE)
- Disaster med
- FAO
- World Vet Association/ PANVET
- Global production assoc
- Global health summit
- North American leadership
How is the bill & melinda gates foundation diff
- Brought a business type approach to dev
- Brought large scale approach to dev & issues
- Brought outcomes accountability
- Brough serious money to global probs
What is Heifer International looking to do
- Looking/working to decrease hunger & poverty around the world
- Want to increase income & food security/nutrition
- Help the envi
- Look at social capital & women’s empowerment
- To overall increase global livelihood
What are the other partners w/in the USAID’s EPT program
- Preparedness & response
- One health workforce projects
- US CDC
- Food & Agri org (FOA)
- World health organization (WHO)
Describe metabiota
- Metabiota devs systems to mitigate microbial threats
- A for profit company specializing in dx & pathogen detection, evaluation, & response through the integration of field & lab research w/ health data analytics
What are the challenges smaller NGOs face
- Limited funding capability
- Limited to no fulltime staff
- Limited ability to scale up to large level operations
- Continuity of operations often dep on small # of volunteers
- Limited ability to compete in the humanitarian working space
What was said in the summary of NGOs
- Tremendous # of animal, health, & development NGOs
- Have a very wide range of focus areas
- They are often connected to other NGOs, governments, & funding
